training a dog to wind.

Teaching dogs to strike off the box is very very easy. You need a striking rig in the front of the truck like those deer hunters use with a receiver mount to set the dogs in that you are going to rig. It used to be pretty easy to when all of the trucks had flat hoods to just use the hood with a small rug bungee coreded with hooks so the dog wont slip or slide off when they get interested in a scent. Of course it speeds up the process if you have a hood dog to train with. If you dont here is how to start them. Get them working on a small hog or raccon in a rolling cage and barking real good at it, start laying down a trail with the wetted down piglet or coon, let the dogs out to trail it up and bay, praise the dog tons when it uses its nose to wind or sniff out the "lost critter". Do this every day and get them interested in hunting up the lost piglet or coon. Keep moving the piglet farther and farther away and do this at least 50 times. Then get the dog to just get used to loading and unloading in or onto your striking box. Ride the dog in the rig snapped in with no possible escape to be run over. Feed the dog on the striking rig platform and water it there as well, leave it there overnight with no way of hanging up and strangling. Then start loading and unloading the dog until its second nature to jump un n the striking rig and wait to get fed and petted. Then for a week or so take the dog riding in the rig snapped in and get him used to being snapped in the rig and riding in the front of the truck, get out and praise the dog and try to unsnap and unload him over and over until he loads and unloads on comand, keep him snapped in after he loads and praise him tons for a good ride in the rigging platform. Now you have a handle on the dog and he is used to jumping off and on the striking rig in front of the truck bumper. All the time you are getting the dog use